In the first annual Players Era Festival in 2024, $9 million dollars in Name, Image, Likeness or NIL payments was split up between all the tournament participants, including the Oregon Ducks.
For decades, the NCAA Tournament has captivated fans with buzzer-beaters, Cinderella stories, and bracket-busting upsets.
The infusion of $1.1 million last November from the Players Era Festival, a nonconference tournament in Las Vegas with guaranteed seven-figure NIL payouts, has bumped the budget for 2025-26 to ...
In a recent interview, former NBA player Shaquille O’Neal expressed concerns about NIL athletes and questioned their ...
Going All In
It was not until 2018, when the U.S. Supreme Court repealed the statute that made sports gambling illegal outside Nevada, that the NCAA went all in on Vegas. While conferences like the Pac 12 and ...
By the time you read this article, we will have crowned our 2025 College Football Playoff champion. If you watched even a ...